Henry Street

Henry Street is a street in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City. Named for American Revolutionary War hero Henry Rutgers, it runs from Oliver Street in the southwest to Grand Street in the northeast, passing under the Manhattan Bridge. In 1893, in response to the squalid living conditions of poor immigrants living in tenements, the Henry Street Settlement was founded, and Henry Street remained an important immigrant neighborhood as it was absorbed into Chinatown.